St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-04-14
A TRIP TO CALIFoRNIA---No. VII.
The Other Side OF the Picture.-CaIIfor-
mia and the Raymond Tourist as
Sketched by Frank Pixley.

Crewn of the Valley"-and the Ray
mond hotel, the crown of the crown.
Since that letter was written, the San
Francisco Argonaut of March 26 has
come to hand in which is an editorial
especially applicable to the present ex
cited state of the public pulse in South
ern California. Mr.. Frank Pixley, the
editor of the ArgOnaut, is one of the
brightest, bravest journalists on this
coast, or on any other, for that matter.
He is an acknowledged power in this
state, and his paper is read and adj
mired wherever the English language
is used. Although the following para
graphs are the deepest sarcasm, one
can read very much between the lines !:
The ArgOnaut-frst begging pardon
of Southern California, the Gland of
the pOmegranate and the olive" the
favored spot where one may sit amid
his vines and enjoy figs purchased at
the corner grocery the favored, bless
ed, fruitful land where the apple and
the pineapple grow side by side, and
a little child may pick the worms from
out the apple and dust away the fieecy
Goblin moth -suggests to the Raymond
tourists and others who have firmly
planted the foundations of Pasadena
and reared the proud battlements of
other towns which are destined to be-
come the cities of refuge and the hope
of the one lunged; where the cough
ers may live to green old age, and
fIai IN ftrl t1n w N
of respectable wealth, thereby secur
ing happy immortality in that other
and warmer land where other Dives
have preceded them-we suggest with
our usual mOdesty, whether San Fran
cisco is not presenting just now a most
respectable condition of sunshine and
balmy breezes that carries with it the
suggestion of climate in Northern
California not altogether uncomfortable.
To our Eastern friends from the lands
of cyclones and storms, of rains and
SHOWS, of winters cold and terrible
summers heat; where mad dogs bite
and delirium tremens is endemic );
where sunstrOkes flourish and light
ming does occasionally strike; where
sheep are guilty of fatal indiscretiOn
by Landing at improper periods; where
it requires seven months of toll to Sc
cure for human and animal life five
months of tObOgganing, and food, and
protection from cold where sweeping
snow from sidewalks is the principal
employment of the poor in winter-we
submit our claims as a pleasure resort
in comparison with Florida, where the
festive alligator smiles in malariOus
lagOons with the Riviera, where the
earthquake holds high carnival on the
shores of the Mediterranean sea with
the south of France and the Rhine !;
with the Switzer Alps, over which
tourists toll with alpenstOcks and
wrestle with hotel bills, enjoy glaciers
composite of ice and mud, listen to the
Alpine horn blown by boys with gOi
tres, and see the Switzer maid drive to
her village home her flock of goats.
We suggest that California is the re-
sort of tourists who have health to re-
gain, time to spend, and money to dis
burse.
To those who have found pleasure in
a trip to Florida with its sweating mi
asmatic corporations, it's better oranges
than ours to those whom fashion has
summoned to the European trip as an
exactiOn of fashionable life ; to those
Overfed sybarites and commands who
find relief in drinking the waters of
Carlsbad and Wiesbaden, and submit
ting to diet impossible at well-sup
piled American table to those globe
trOtters who circumnavigate the world
to kill time and say they have done it !;
to those wealthy Eastern residents who
seek the a-breeZes of the Atlantic,
the Western lakes, and smother in
summer hOuses-we say come to Cali
fOrnia cross our broad plains and
deserts, over our more than SwitZer
heights in sight of eternal SHOWS and
across broad plains; visit the
Yosemite and the Grand Canon of the
Colorado, those great clefts rent in the
bosom of our land, four thousand feet
in depth, and with a display of rock
scenery that has no Alpine equivalent,
with which no scenery on earth is COM
parable go to the grand primal for
ests that crown our Sierra's heights;
great pines, redwOods, and the monster
sequOias stand in Gods grandest ca
thedrals, through whose arched dOmes
you may catch glimpses of a irma
ment mOsaicked by stars, and compare
tlSPse magnificent temples of divine
CIodUIOn WIFI Tile nlOSG UeduJllul WOThS
of mans device and toll.
See California valleys, great and
small, Sacramento and San Joaquin,
SOnoma, Napa, Santa Clara and the
Salinas, with their vineyards and or
chards Nesting amid hills covered
with wild flowers destined to be the
future homes of Industrious millions
see our great, fruitful plains make
the trip to the Geysers and the red
wood forests of MendocinO, through
the romantic and picturesque county
of Marin, with its glens, and groves,
and gorgeous views; visit
Pasadena and Riverside, those atfiuent
TadmOrs of the desert, whose air is
balmy with the perfumes of spices and
the fragrant Odor of fruits. On your
way out of the country, stop for a day
where San Francisco .fuit; snuff it's
healthful, salty sea fogs sketch the
ruins of Mob Hill, and drop a sympa-
thetic tear for the unhappy fate of that
portion of CALIFORNIA; early population
who did not chance to settle in Los
San BernardinO, or San Die
go, and had not the luck to sell their
possessions to the wealthy, one lunged
Raymond tourist.
If one will travel three weeks in Cal
ifOrnia and not admit that the above is
about the cleverist satire he ever read,
you may send him the CaledOnian
three months at my expense.
To show, however, that Mr.. Pixley
is not only at home in satire but is
MASTER of the situatiOn when he comes
down to sober realities, we copy the
closing paragraphs of what he had to
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